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Sam Kofi Mills, son of late President Prof. John Evans Atta Mills says he is glad to see Ghanaians still remember is father even after five years of his demise. Speaking to www.ghanaweb.com at the five-year commemoration of the death of his father Monday July 24, Mr. Kofi Mills said, his father deserves to be celebrated because he was a ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) is demanding that all the Commissioners of the Electoral Commission (EC) step aside for investigations to be conducted into the allegations and counter-allegations between the Chairperson Mrs. Charlotte Osei and her deputies, Georgina Opoku Amankwa and Amadu Sulley. Mrs. Osei is being accused for “single-handedly” dishing out contracts without recourse to the Public Procurement Act ...

Deputy Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) in charge of Corporate Services, Georgina Opoku Amankwaa, who is alleged to have signed contracts without proper authorisation has refuted the allegations, insisting that she breached no regulations. Mrs Opoku Amankwaa’s rebuttal is the latest twist in the thickening internal row at the Electoral Commission (EC), Ghana’s independent elections management body. Chairperson of ...

The Campaign Director for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Martin Agyei Mensah Korsah, Director of Elections of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as worrying the recent controversy that has struck the Electoral Commission (EC). According to him, the development affects the integrity of the Commission and as such urgent steps must be taken to resolve the brouhaha. The ...

A third prosecution witness in the trial of Gregory Afoko, Mr Azigri Quinn, yesterday confirmed to the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court that the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Mahama Adams, told a close associate that it was Afoko and an accomplice who caused his death. Mr Quinn said while lying ...

The 2016 flag bearer of the All People’s Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga has described the former chair of the Electoral Commission (EC), Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan as a ‘shining example’ in Africa. According to him, Dr Afari-Gyan was far better in handling election matters in the country than the current chair, Madam Charlotte Osei. “I miss Afari so much because of ...

Some newly posted teachers in the Adaklu District of the Volta Region have raised concerns over the inconveniences they go through in accessing their salaries. The teachers lamented they have been turned away by their banks on numerous occasions when they attempted to withdraw their salaries. Some of them who spoke to Joy News said, the banks simply told them ...

Queenmother of of Ekumfi Otuam, Nana Anyinfuah III, has called for the body of Ghana’s late President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills to be exhumed and moved to his hometown for a befitting burial. Prof. John Mills died on July 24, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital; just five months to the December 2012 general elections which he was seeking ...

Officials of the Lands Commission in Ghana have been summoned by the Supreme Court to testify in the cross-examination of embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome over the questionable GH51.2 million judgment debt paid to him by the previous administration. The invitation of the commission was necessitated by a disagreement between himself and Deputy Attorney General Godfred Dame over the ownership ...

A lecturer at the University of Ghana Political Science Department has expressed disappointment at the responses given by the Electoral Commission Chairperson Charlotte Osei, in relation to a petition filed by some concerned staff of the commission accusing her of misconduct and fraud. Prof. Ransford Gyampo says he was not expecting the EC Chair to respond in a manner that ...